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#1

Podman

Similarity 141Trust 87Excellent 100

Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

32K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add podman-container-tools/podman
#2

Containerd

Similarity 140Trust 87Excellent 100

An open and reliable container runtime

21K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add containerd/containerd
#3

Gvisor

Similarity 140Trust 87Excellent 100

Application Kernel for Containers

19K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add google/gvisor
#4

Fission

Similarity 138Trust 87Excellent 100

Fast and Simple Serverless Functions for Kubernetes

8.9K starsJul 17, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add fission/fission
#5

Trivy

Similarity 133Trust 89Excellent 100

Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more

36K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add aquasecurity/trivy
#6

Minikube

Similarity 133Trust 88Excellent 100

Run Kubernetes locally

32K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/minikube
#7

Harbor

Similarity 133Trust 89Excellent 100

An open source trusted cloud native registry project that stores, signs, and scans content.

29K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add goharbor/harbor
#8

Kubernetes

Similarity 133Trust 87Excellent 100

Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

123K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/kubernetes
#9

Rancher

Similarity 132Trust 87Excellent 100

Complete container management platform

26K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add rancher/rancher
#10

Kops

Similarity 132Trust 91Excellent 100

Kubernetes Operations (kOps) - Production Grade k8s Installation, Upgrades and Management

17K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/kops
#11

Kubescape

Similarity 131Trust 90Excellent 100

Kubescape is an open-source Kubernetes security platform for your IDE, CI/CD pipelines, and clusters. It includes risk analysis, security, compliance, and misconfiguration scanning, saving Kubernetes users and administrators precious time, effort, and resources.

11K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubescape/kubescape
#12

Linkerd2

Similarity 131Trust 89Excellent 100

Ultralight, security-first service mesh for Kubernetes. Main repo for Linkerd 2.x.

11K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add linkerd/linkerd2
#13

Rook

Similarity 131Trust 87Excellent 100

Storage Orchestration for Kubernetes

14K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add rook/rook
#14

Crossplane

Similarity 131Trust 88Excellent 100

The Cloud Native Control Plane

12K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add crossplane/crossplane
#15

Talos

Similarity 131Trust 88Excellent 100

Talos Linux is a modern Linux distribution built for Kubernetes.

11K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add siderolabs/talos
#16

Kompose

Similarity 131Trust 87Excellent 100

Convert Compose to Kubernetes

11K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/kompose

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